Videogames are increasingly recognised as an important “quality of life resource” for people with disabilities [1], as has the need, within game industry accessibility advocacy groups, for guidance and assistance in creating accessible games. The IGDA’s Game Accessibility Special Interest Group, for instance, was formed with the mission of helping “the game community strive towards creating mai...

The lack of accessibility on websites can result in people with disabilities not accessing information online. Therefore, this research aims to create a process model for continuous web testing by adapting and customizing three methodologies: Deming cycle (Plan, Do, Check, Act), Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM), Total Quality Management. is composed four phases...

It is crucial to adapt and improve the (primary) health care systems of countries to prepare for future patient profiles and their related needs. The main aim of this study was to acquire a comprehensive overview of the perceptions of primary care experts in Singapore about the state of primary care in Singapore, and to compare this with the state of primary care in other countries. Notwithstan...

Cross-cultural comparisons of categorization often confound cultural factors with expertise. This paper reports four experiments on the conceptual behavior of Native American and majority-culture fish experts. The two groups live in the same general area and engage in essentially the same set of fishing-related behaviors. Nonetheless, cultural differences were consistently observed. Majority-cu...

My thesis work combines AI, programming language design, and software engineering. I am integrating reinforcement learning (RL) into a programming language so that the language achieves three primary goals: accessibility, adaptivity, and modularity. My language, AFABL (A Friendly Adaptive Behavior Language), will be an agent programming language designed to be accessible to nonprogramming exper...

This paper describes the research project on the development of an ontology-based semantic search system for drought management of the Chi River Basin (CRB), Thailand. The research methods included Ontology Development 101 by adopting Noy & McGuinness (2001) and Ontology-based Application Management framework by adopting Buranarach et al. (2012). Seventeen experts including ten experts in the a...

One present goal of researchers and developers is to design software tools that make learning materials available online in an educationally effective manner. We face the twofold challenge of implementing advanced e-learning functionalities, though designing their interface so as to provide an easy interaction grasping the students’ interest. A poorly designed interface makes students spend mor...

The paper presents the problem of choosing the representatives in an assembly when the whole electoral region is subdivided into electoral districts. Because of the two dimensions, geographical (districts) and political (parties), the problem is called bi-apportionment. Often the allocation of seats to districts is pre-determined and furthermore distorted —meaning that the ratios of the number ...